Cellectis bioresearch and Lonza Enter Development and Commercial Manufacturing Agreement
June 8, 2010
PARIS and BASEL, Switzerland -- -- Cellectis bioresearch, the French genome customization specialist and a commercial subsidiary of Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), and Lonza, a world leader in biotechnology production, announce today that the companies have entered into an agreement for the development and commercialization of a bioengineered cell line. Cellectis bioresearch will use its meganucleases [...]
BD Signs Agreements to Sell Ophthalmic Systems Unit, Other Platforms
June 8, 2010
Agreements include surgical blades, critical care and extended dwell catheter product platforms FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX - News), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it has signed agreements to sell certain assets of its BD Medical segment, including the Ophthalmic Systems unit as well as [...]
Microhardness Testing Capabilities Expanded
June 8, 2010
The Metallography Lab at Laboratory Testing Inc. has expanded its capabilities with the purchase of a state-of-the-art hardness testing system, a Struers DuraScan. The PC operated system covers both microhardness and macrohardness test applications. The new equipment has significantly expanded our test load range for Vickers and Knoop with capabilities from 10 gf to 10 [...]
Introducing Seward’s New Universal Fit Simplette Straws
June 8, 2010
An inexpensive alternative to the graduated pipette Worthing, UK -- Seward Limited, manufacturer and developer of the world leading, patented Stomacher® Paddle Blender range for over 40 years, is offering users exceptional value for money with their new universal fit Simplette Straws. Designed for use with fixed or variable-volume pipette handsets and costing less than [...]
DataApex Released the New Clarity version 3.0
June 8, 2010
Prague -- DataApex is pleased to announce that the new Clarity version 3.0 was released the last week. The version brings more than 100 enhancements that increase user’ comfort and add new functions: for example new calibration and sequence options (including calibration bracketing, standard addition calibration), new export in Excel format or enhancement to GLP [...]
Fluidigm Introduces World’s First Reusable Bio-Chip Architecture
June 8, 2010
Company Commits New Product Line to Support USDA Agricultural Research Service’s “Penny-per-Data-Point” Program for High Sample Throughput Genotyping SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--Fluidigm Corporation today announced it has developed the world’s first reusable bio-chip architecture for the commercial market. These reusable integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs) will dramatically lower SNP genotyping costs and are designed to support [...]
University of Maryland Researchers Use Roche´s xCELLigence System
June 8, 2010
PENZBERG, Germany--Researchers at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center have studied the involvement of “microtentacles,” or extensions of the plasma membrane of breast cancer cells, in how cancers spread to distant locations in the body (1). Targeting these microtentacles might prove to be a new way to prevent or slow the [...]
Agilent Technologies’ Electronic Lab Notebook Now Available in Chinese and Korean Language Versions
June 8, 2010
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Agilent OpenLAB Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) is now available in versions that support Chinese and Korean languages, including a fully translated user interface. "We wanted to be the first to offer a commercial enterprise electronic lab notebook in Chinese and Korean, enabling researchers [...]
WaferGen Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement for SmartChip Real-Time PCR System in Japan
June 8, 2010
FREMONT, Calif. -- -- WaferGen Biosystems, Inc. (OTC:WGBS) (BULLETIN BOARD: WGBS) , a leading developer of state-of-the-art genome analysis systems, today announced the signing of an exclusive distribution agreement for the company's SmartChip Real-Time PCR System with Takeda Rika Kogyo Co., Ltd., a leading distributor of innovative products and services in the life science markets [...]
June 8, 2010
Colonized Patients are Most at Risk for Serious Complications of S. aureus Infection SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- -- Cepheid (Nasdaq:CPHD - News) today announced it has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market Xpert® SA Nasal Complete, the first and only molecular test designed for the simultaneous detection and differentiation of [...]
